[lbo-talk] Re: education, education, education, education

Andy F andy274 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 13 07:25:42 PDT 2006


On 9/13/06, Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com> wrote:


> If you're talking about pronouncements from the financial sector, rest
> assured that I take nothing on trust. My experience of Wall Street is that
> it is a world of rigorous calculations built on the shakiest (if not
> actually imaginary) assumptions.

By all means, but you are aware that there are applications of calculus beyond economics, right?

I wouldn't compare calculus to dancing (though I do the former more than the latter), but having a good grounding in applied statistics seems more useful to nonspecialists. _How to Lie with Statistics_ is dated ("Harvard grads get $25K!") but gets the right idea. Does anybody know of more modern analogs?

-- Andy



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